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Volume 2, Number 3
21 January 2002
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH LAW AND POLICY
South
African Medical Association Endorses HIV Treatment
for Rape Victims
Zambia:
Man Jailed 5yrs for Infecting Girl, 13, With HIV
Lithuanian
Driving License Regulations Discriminatory To Women
French
Government Allows Free Emergency Contraception for
Adolescents
Uganda:
Schools to Teach Sex Education
South
Africa: 'Birth Control Should Be Available to Children'
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
IVF
Now Fastest Way to Get Pregnant
Understanding
Herpes Simplex Virus: Diagnosis, Transmission, and
Management (review)
FAMILY PLANNING / REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEWS
Uganda: Government to Promote Condoms in Villages
Emergency Contraceptive Pills: The Last-Chance Contraceptive
Nigeria:
Infertility is No Longer a Lifelong Disorder - Expert
HIV / AIDS RESEARCH
SIVcpz in Wild Chimpanzees
Related news article: HIV-like Virus Detected in Wild Chimpanzee
Scientists Succeed in Blocking Transmission of Cell-Associated AIDS Virus
Some
Sexual Lubricants May Inactivate HIV, Study Says
HIV / AIDS NEWS
Promise, Problems Seen in Potential AIDS Vaccines
Men
Crucial in Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission
of HIV
Related Research Update 
Kenya: HIV/AIDS Infection Rate Down One Percent
Ivory Coast Firm's Workplace AIDS Programs
HIV/AIDS:
Basketball Star Appears in U.N.-NBA TV Spots
HIV/AIDS
will 'Frustrate' Africa's Economic Future if Left
Unaddressed
AIDS:
Mother to Child Transmission Likely to Worsen
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH
An
Investigation Into Maternal Mortality
(presentation of maternal mortality in a hospital
in Orissa State, India)
Outcomes
in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants
(abstract)
Related news article: Low Birth
Weight Problems May Last Into Adulthood
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH NEWS
Postpartum
Depression: Will the Rate Go Up Or Remain Hidden?
Study: Pregnant Women Can Use the
Nicotine Patch
Doctors
Should Reduce Penicillin Use For Women In Labor
Anthrax Shots May Cause Birth Defects:
U.S. Military
Grim
Conditions in Kabul Maternity Clinics
Lack of Vitamin C May Trigger Fetal
Membrane Break
Children's
Charity Criticizes Global Immunization Initiative
Cesarean
Section: Ordeal of Women
Slightly Preterm Babies Show Developmental
Delays
Uganda:
No More Tears Over Retained Placenta
MEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Working
with Men for HIV Prevention and Care
POPULATION NEWS
Second
World Assembly on Aging
Independent
Georgia Conducts First Census
Population
Growth and Global Food Resources
WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
Violence,
Pregnancy and Abortion: Issues of Women's Rights and
Public Health
A Review of Worldwide Data and Recommendations for
Action
WOMEN'S HEALTH NEWS
Embolization
Offers Nonsurgical Alternative to Hysterectomy
Panel Says Breast Cancer Test Helps
Some Women
Nigeria:
Body Raises Alarm Over Sexual Abuse of Female Destitutes
YOUTH RESEARCH
Depression
and Unintended Pregnancy in the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth: A Cohort Study
KIDS
COUNT International Data Sheet
Datasheet can be found at: http://www.prb.org/pdf/childrenwallchartfinal.pdf
YOUTH NEWS
Nigeria:
Youth Corps Members Undergo HIV/AIDS Orientation
Cautious Welcome for Asian Treaty
Against Child Sex Trade
Bhat Links High Mortality Rate of Children to Poverty
Zambia: UNFPA's Sexual Programme Breaks Communication Barrier
BOOKS / BOOK REVIEWS
Aging: What Does the Future Hold?
AIDS in the 21st Century: Disease and Globalization
Tony Barnett & Alan Whiteside
Forthcoming May/June 2002, Palgrave/Macmillan
By the end of 2001 about 40 million people world-wide
were living with HIV and a further 20 million had
died from the disease. Most new infections occur in
young adults. The poor world and especially the
African continent bears the brunt of this epidemic.
Eastern Europe is currently experiencing the fastest
growing epidemic with India and China following in
the train.
This important book argues that HIV/AIDS is an epidemic of globalization. Its trajectory can be directly linked to global inequality. Globalization determines the scale and scope of HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS will shape international political, economic and social relations in the first decades of this century. Above all, HIV/AIDS shows the bankruptcy of national and international public health policy.
The authors look at the forces driving the epidemic and describes its impacts. They argue that HIV/AIDS is a long wave disaster that is now unfolding inexorably. Conventional measures of impact do not adequately describe its scale. They show that HIV/AIDS is already leading to unprecedented impoverishment that will be felt for generations.
Both prevention and mitigation responses have been
half-hearted and inadequate - the results of this
will be apparent in the years ahead. This is hardly
surprising given a global order where responsibility
no
longer rests with national governments but rather
with faceless multinational corporations or supranational
bureaucracies.
This book sounds a wakeup call that all is not well in the world, and AIDS is a symptom of just how bad things are.
PROFILES / SPECIAL REPORTS:
Macroeconomics
and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development:
Report of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
This website includes links to the report, working
group papers and reports, as well as speeches by the
heads of the World Health Organization and the UN
Secretary-General regarding report findings.
Informed
Choice Tool Kit:
"Choices in Family Planning: Informed and Voluntary
Decision Making," the first module in the agency's
"Realizing Rights in Sexual and Reproductive
Health Services" tool kit series, is designed
to help
reproductive health service providers and others acquire
a deeper understanding of the elements of informed
and voluntary decision making and the factors that
support or challenge it.
The Men's Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities
and sexualities.
Adolescent
Sexual and Reproductive Health News
This website provides listings of and links to upcoming
workshops on youth reproductive health in different
parts of the world, new publications on youth, IEC
materials for youth, and descriptions of various youth
reproductive health programs.
TRAINING
MANUAL: Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training
Handbook for Women
This handbook is based on a conceptualization of leadership
as horizontal, inclusive, and participatory. This
alternative leadership model presented in the handbook
responds to the need for leaders who aspire to create
egalitarian, democratic, and pluralistic societies
based on collaborative decision-making, coalition-building,
and gender equality. Leading to Choices features a
contextual chapter, twelve workshop sessions, and
an appendix containing culture-specific scenarios
relevant to the cultivation of effective leadership
skills. At the heart of each workshop session is a
case study or scenario.
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